A woman is found dead in the Ardennes Regional Nature Park. On her sweater, the DNA of the wife of Commander Guillaume Desgranges, from Paris Criminal Investigation Division has been found.
But he refuses to hear about what is happening in the Ardennes. She disappeared 10 years ago and the time has passed now.
His protégée, Brigadier Zoé Dechaume does not take the same view. So, clandestinely, and in duet with her teammate Lola Rivière, she decides to investigate on a woman she does not know, but whom she thinks is still alive.
Former Captain at the Paris Criminal Brigade, Hervé Jourdain is the author of Sang d'encre au 36 (Prix des lecteurs du Grand Prix VSD du polar, 2009), Psychose au 36 (2011), Sang de la trahison (Prix du Quai des Orfèvres, 2014) and of Femme sur écoute (Grand Prix Sang d'Encre, 2017). Recently appointed as a Commander, he is now working for the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
- Sectarian drift and quackery are unusual topics for an enthralling and extremely well structured noir novel.
- The members of the team all have a complicated personal background they've been able to go through thanks to their job and their colleagues.
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